Insurance coverage for millions of people is riding on the latest politically charged Supreme Court clash over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
The case being argued Wednesday focuses on who's eligible for federal tax subsidies intended...

Oklahoma would become the first state to allow the execution of death row inmates using nitrogen gas under a bill overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday by the House of Representatives.
The House voted 85-10 for the bill by Oklahoma City Republican Rep. Mike...

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that federal courts can hear a dispute over Colorado's Internet tax law. One justice suggested it was time to reconsider the ban on state collection of sales taxes from companies outside their borders.
The ruling...

Four little words will determine the fate of Obamacare and the continuation of federal subsidies for nearly 1.2 million Floridians who have signed up for health insurance through the Healthcare.gov website.
Ramona Boehler, of Sunrise, is among those anxiously awaiting the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court case that will be argued Wednesday.
"If they rule against subsidies, I'm going to have to drop my health insurance," said Boehler, 63.
So might many South Floridians who have enrolled for private...

The execution of the first female in Georgia in 70 years was on hold Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed last-minute arguments by her lawyers that they hoped would persuade the nation's top justices to grant a stay.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, was scheduled to die by injection of pentobarbital at 7 p.m. in the state prison for the February 1997 murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner.
Still pending was a response from the high court after an appellate court rejected her lawyers' request for...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week hears a challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. If successful, the lawsuit would cripple Obama's prized domestic achievement, a program that has brought the U.S. as close as it has ever come to universal health care. The Affordable Care Act passed Congress in 2010 without a single Republican vote in favor. An explanation of the legal case:
FOUR WORDS DETERMINE THE LAW'S FUTURE
The lawsuit focuses on the health insurance marketplaces, or exchanges,...

The problem of legislative gerrymandering has been around for centuries, but the people of Arizona finally ran out of patience. They were fed up with being arranged into districts not to foster meaningful elections but to protect the interests of the public officials in power.
So in 2000, they approved a ballot initiative entrusting the job of legislative and congressional reapportionment, which has to be done after each decennial census, to an independent commission. And in 2012, the new body did...

The Supreme Court, unwilling to limit partisan influence in redistricting in earlier cases, now seems poised to stop states that have tried to take matters into their own hands by removing map-drawing power from elected lawmakers.
The justices heard arguments Monday in a challenge to Arizona's independent redistricting commission's drawing of U.S. House seats in a case that could also affect a dozen other states, including California.
The big issue before the court is whether voters can take away the...

The Supreme Court is considering limits on the type of evidence that can be used in child abuse cases, a move that could hamstring prosecutors in domestic violence trials.
The justices on Monday debated whether out-of-court statements that children make to their teachers about abuse can be used as evidence if a child is unable to testify in person.
The case involves Darius Clark, a Cleveland man convicted of abusing his girlfriend's three-year-old son. Clark says allowing the trial court to consider...